Inshore waters off Bodø Norway boiling with fish thanks to a no nearshore trawling ban

The icona research team is making the best of the trip to #Italy, after a great session at #ecrs2024, they are now exploring the #CO2 seeps of Italy. First stop, Ischia, the first CO2 seep to be used for #ocean #acidification #research. Hosted by Nuria Texido. Agostini Sylvain

All you need to know about marine invasive species fisheries openknowledge.fao.org/items/e7aa0f29… Includes case studies on King Crab in the Barents Sea and #lionfish in the Mediterranean and west Atlantic. Food and Agriculture Organization EU Maritime & Fish University of Plymouth Lionfish University

🌍 Excited to share FAO's report on tackling invasive species in a changing climate! 🐠 With Holden E. Harris and Jason Hall-Spencer , we presented a case study on managing invasive lionfish and shared lessons in sustainable fisheries management. 🌊 doi.org/10.4060/cd1400…

Litterina littorea #winkles more than twice as big as Plymouth’s here in Bodo Norway. Severe corrosion to the apices in the old ones, maybe due to low carbonate saturation in the Arctic. As seen at CO2 seeps in Japan and Italy.

Saw the rare and endemic plant Limonium mucronulatum around Larnaca Salt Lakes today, it is classified as Critically Endangered.

Discovering new maerl beds on the South Coast of Cornwall gov.uk/government/new…

I’m starting to get boat envy, must get another someday. South Devon is looking even more gorgeous than usual.

Check out Climate and Ecology: Off the Rails - Plymouth billetto.co.uk/e/climate-and-…

Checking out saltmarsh restoration plans with the Environment Agency, Dartmouth Harbourmaster and others

hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru… Job Alert: Lecturer in Marine Biology particularly aligned to the BSc Marine Biology and Oceanography degree: deadline for applications 3rd November.

THREAD: 1. PERSONAL NEWS: Today BBC News has announced plans to close BBC HARDtalk after 3 decades holding the world’s politicians and powerbrokers to account. This is sad news for me personally, but much more important, I think it’s depressing news for the BBC🧵

Workshop on #invasive species and climate change with Cheyenne Couvreur (Tahiti), Renaud Grover (Monaco), Hassan Aly (Egypt) and Paul Renaud (Norway) thanks to HSH Prince of Monaco for listening to our findings (better biosecurity needed) + Hilmi Nathalie and her team.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Water company profiteering by polluting Lake Windermere.

Samurai ghost crab, for Halloween

Have arrived in Baku and am already impressed by the breadth of nations and people participating plymouth.ac.uk/research/cop #COP29

COP29 will over-run as envoys work out how to finance a 1 Trillion USD climate emergency fund. I was impressed by the Ocean Pavilion and the Virtual Ocean Pavilion cop29oceanpavilion.vfairs.com - the issues they raised will gain in prominence at COP30.

New seaweed paper is available on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/39…

New ocean acidification paper, this time from the Azores doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss… #ICONAproject

For the Ocean : Special Event Of the One Ocean Science Congress youtu.be/II5N6Ii-fVY?si… via YouTube